No personal, individual effort

can possibly lead to enlightenment. On
the contrary, what is necessary is to rest helpless in beingness,
knowing that we are nothing - to be in the nothingness of the no-mind
state in which all conceptualizing has subsided into passive
witnessing. In this state whatever happens will be not our doing but the pure universal functioning to which we have relinquished all control.

Ramesh S. Balsekar

Maya

Until there is the conviction in the seeker that all phenomena, including himself, are merely appearances without any substance, there can be no true understanding. You are the primordial state of total freedom, that fullness of pure joy, that concentration of light which is subtler than the subtlest and the witness of everything

- Ramesh Balsekar

Why did you come to the Master?

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Because my life was going nowhere, giving me nothing.
So where's it going now?
No where
And what's it giving you now?
Nothing.
So, what's the difference?
Now I'm going nowhere because there's nowhere to go;
I'm getting nothing because there's nothing to desire.

- Anthony de Mello, S.J.